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Cestus :: Cestus (n.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.

Sea Mouse :: Sea mouse () A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides..

Perfect :: Perfect (a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower.

Polygamia :: Polygamia (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant..

Androgyne :: Androgyne (n.) An hermaphrodite.

Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse..

Pulmonata :: Pulmonata (n. pl.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis..

Fritillary :: Fritillary (n.) One of several species of butterflies belonging to Argynnis and allied genera; -- so called because the coloring of their wings resembles that of the common Fritillaria. See Aphrodite.

Epicene :: Epicene (a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites..

Polyandria :: Polyandria (n. pl.) A Linnaean class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle..

Scrat :: Scrat (n.) An hermaphrodite.

Silverspot :: Silverspot (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies of the genus Argynnis and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. See Illust. under Aphrodite..

Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.

Bisexual :: Bisexual (a.) Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes..

Gonochorism :: Gonochorism (n.) In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless..

Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans..

Trigamous :: Trigamous (a.) Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers..

Monoecious :: Monoecious (a.) Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to dioecious..

Eros :: Eros (n.) Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid..

Dimorphism :: Dimorphism (n.) Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly..

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